Fastened to the wool was a pin, a five-petaled, rather Oriental-looking gold flower inside a silver square. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
The veminium is a delicate, five-petaled blue flower common in both the northern and southern hemispheres of Gor. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
On the side of it, she saw the design of the pin the phouka had given her, the five-petaled flower in the square, inlaid in gold and silver. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
Nearby were cranesbills, wild geraniums with leaves of many teeth and five-petaled reddish-pink flowers, that grew into fruits that resembled the bills of cranes. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
It blooms very early with large, five-petaled flowers that last for months. From Wordnik.com. [KUSA-TV -] Reference
Note first of this kind: I find here on this word, 'five-petaled,' as applied to. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
The white tubular flowers that end in a five-petaled star are numerous and very fragrant. From Wordnik.com. [Richmond.com - Main] Reference
Notice the return of the five-petaled wild geranium flower in the header and as an icon in the sidebars-yay!. From Wordnik.com. [Table for Five] Reference
All the 800 or so species of oxalis have five-petaled flowers and compound cloverlike leaves, usually with three leaflets. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
I began this by splattering paint in a way that would wind up suggesting these four-and five-petaled blooms and some light and leaves. From Wordnik.com. [View From the Oak] Reference
A twig of finger size will be furred to the thickness of one's wrist by pink five-petaled bloom, so close that only the blunt-faced wild bees find their way in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Little Rain] Reference
Plants generally put forth rounded leaves and showy five-petaled flowers equipped with a rich nectar tube that attracts hordes of butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
The flowers are five-petaled, with a faint, sweet perfume; they are borne in flat clusters of an exquisite, velvety texture, with a clearly marked eye in the centre encircling the few pearl-white stamens; this eye varies with the hue of each different flower. From Wordnik.com. [An Island Garden] Reference
'five-petaled,' must stand. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
Three petaled and three-sepaled, four-petaled and four-sepaled, five-petaled and five-sepaled, etc., etc., are essential -- with me, primal -- elements of definition; next, whether resolute or stellar in their connection; next, whether round or pointed, etc. Fancy, for instance, the fatality to a rose of pointing its petals, and to a lily, of rounding them!. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
Stem simple, sometimes branched at the top, and from two to six feet in height, according to the variety; the leaves are large, palmate, deep-green; the flowers are large, five-petaled, yellowish on the border, purple at the centre; the seed-pods are angular, or grooved, more or less sharply pointed, an inch or an inch and a half in diameter at the base, and from four to eight inches in length; the seeds are large, round-kidney-shaped, of a greenish-drab color, black or dark-brown at the eye, and retain their power of germination five years. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
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